How can I pass variable to ansible playbook in the command line?

I'm new to ansible and wonder how to do so as the following didn't work

ansible-playbook -i '10.0.0.1,' yada-yada.yml --tags 'loaddata' django_fixtures="tile_colors" 

Where django_fixtures is my variable.

10 Answers

Reading the docs I find the section Passing Variables On The Command Line, that gives this example:

ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo" 

Others examples demonstrate how to load from JSON string (≥1.2) or file (≥1.3)

Other answers state how to pass in the command line variables but not how to access them, so if you do:

--extra-vars "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo" 

In your yml file you assign these to scoped ansible variables by doing something like:

vars: my_version: "{{ version }}" my_other_variable: {{ other_variable }} 

An alternative to using command line args is to utilise environmental variables that are already defined within your session, you can reference these within your ansible yml files like this:

vars: my_version: "{{ lookup('env', 'version') }}" my_other_variable: {{ lookup('env', 'other_variable') }} 

ansible-playbook release.yml -e "version=1.23.45 other_variable=foo" 

You can use the --extra-vars option. See the docs

For some reason none of the above Answers worked for me. As I need to pass several extra vars to my playbook in Ansbile 2.2.0, this is how I got it working (note the -e option before each var):

ansible-playbook site.yaml -i hostinv -e firstvar=false -e second_var=value2 

ansible-playbook test.yml --extra-vars "arg1=${var1} arg2=${var2}" 

In the yml file you can use them like this

--- arg1: "{{ var1 }}" arg2: "{{ var2 }}" 

Also, --extra-vars and -e are the same, you can use one of them.

 s3_sync: bucket: ansible-harshika file_root: "{{ pathoftsfiles }}" validate_certs: false mode: push key_prefix: "{{ folder }}" 

here the variables are being used named as 'pathoftsfiles' and 'folder'. Now the value to this variable can be given by the below command

sudo ansible-playbook multiadd.yml --extra-vars "pathoftsfiles=/opt/lampp/htdocs/video/uploads/tsfiles/$2 folder=nitesh" 

Note: Don't use the inverted commas while passing the values to the variable in the shell command

ansible-playbook release.yml --extra-vars "username=hello password=bye" #you can now use the above command anywhere in the playbook as an example below: tasks: - name: Create a new user in Linux shell: useradd -m -p {{username}} {{password}}" 

This also worked for me if you want to use shell environment variables:

ansible-playbook -i "localhost," ldap.yaml --extra-vars="LDAP_HOST={{ lookup('env', 'LDAP_HOST') }} clustername=mycluster env=dev LDAP_USERNAME={{ lookup('env', 'LDAP_USERNAME') }} LDAP_PASSWORD={{ lookup('env', 'LDAP_PASSWORD') }}"

ansible-playbok -i <inventory> <playbook-name> -e "proc_name=sshd"

You can use the above command in below playbooks.

--- - name: Service Status gather_facts: False tasks: - name: Check Service Status (Linux) shell: pgrep "{{ proc_name }}" register: service_status ignore_errors: yes debug: var=service_status.rc`